Thrilled to have made the @bathflashaward.bsky.social longlist!!! 🎉🎉🎉 Congrats to all on the list and commiserations to those who missed out this time.

The write-in has now responded to all subs. Stories will continue to be posted until midnight tomorrow. If anyone has not heard pls get in touch. We received an unprecedented response this year and are publishing TWICE the number of stories as last year. A link to all stories will be pub soon.

There are just two weeks left to enter our international flash fiction competition for stories up to 500 words (excluding title). Entries close 30 June. flash500.com Prizes: £300/£200/£100 plus publication Judged by @scooterwriter.bsky.social #fiction #writerslife #writerscommunity #flashfiction

What an encouraging response we've had—the biggest ever! 🙏❤️ Although we are a small but mighty team, it's going to take a few more days to respond to all the submissions. And thanks to our newest editor @alimcg.bsky.social for jumping into the fray w/us this year. ❤️ @natflashfictionday.bsky.social

I am very chuffed to have won the PEN/Bernard & Ann Malamud Award. I really love short stories, both reading and writing. www.penfaulkner.org/2026/06/15/e...

Free flash fiction anthology. Download Ellipsis Zine: Three from our website here: ellipsis-zine.com/publications... 45 pieces of micro fiction. 300 words or fewer.

👀Novella-in-Flash Writers! I've been invited by London Writers Salon to deliver this w/shop. If you want to add your/a NiF to my Recommended Reading list drop title & publisher in the comments. A great way to promote your work to a new audience. community.londonwriterssalon.com/c/interviews...

Excited for the festival next month! If you are coming don’t forget to enter The Pokrass Prize, open to ALL attendees. Free. good odds! cash first prize plus books! Enter by midsummer’s Day June 21st — details In post www.flashfictionfestival.com/pokrass-priz...

Love this hilarious gem from @sagreene1.bsky.social 🐄🐄🐄 #nffd2026

Ooh, missed my #nffd2026 Flash Flood moment!!🤦‍♀️ Thanks so much @natflashfictionday.bsky.social for including my tiny micro 'Wind-up Shoes in the flood! Won't take you a second to read if you'd like to check it out 😃 🌊🌊🌊

Good news! Ministers have finally given green light to new #NaturalHistory GCSE. We’ve campaigned so long for this! Big hats off to tireless advocate Mary Colwell 🙌 Now our young people will have a chance to get to know & love the natural world, to feel awe & wonder, & gain skills to protect it 🌷🌳🦡

Free flash fiction anthology. Download Ellipsis Zine: One from our website here: ellipsis-zine.com/publications... I’ll be uploading all past issues in the coming weeks and also making them free to download.

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...

National Flash Fiction Day is a week today (13 June). FlashFlood will be posting a flash every five minutes, the Write-in will be posting a prompt on the hour ever hour & we will be launching our anthology ‘Mudlarking’. Please consider buying a copy to support us.

"If I could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint." (Edward Hopper) (Edward Hopper, Room by the Sea, 1951)

"Follow the path known by heart". How we listen to ourselves matters. With deep and attentive or distant and dissociated ears. Truthfully most days it is a bit of both. But that we struggle to hear ourselves. It's how any piece of art gets born. And in the birthing something new in us finds voice...

While I work on resurrecting the Ellipsis archive, let’s get the ball rolling… Web submissions are open, 6th-16th June. 1,000 words or fewer. The usual guidelines apply and can be found here: ellipsis-zine.com/submit

Submissions OPEN! Until July 15. Send us what you love, as long as it's flash, micro or poetry. No theme, no AI, no hate. We like lots of different things so don't prejudge yourself out of consideration. Submit! Writing is happy and also changes the world. Win-win. templeinacity.com/submit-writi...

It's a good news story!! 🎉🎉🎉

National Flash Fiction Day is two weeks today 13 June). If you are celebrating the day with an event, pls let us know. Please consider supporting us by buying our new anthology ‘Mudlarking’. Other NFFD anthologies available from our bookshop: www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk/index.php/bo...

We will never know or properly appreciate how many lives have been saved by librarians. The right book in the right hands at the right time. Astounding.

Nationally Rare and smart looking the Kugelann's Ground Beetle Poecilus kugelanni, several seen today at the Devon Wildlife Trust Dart Valley reserve

One of those rare times when the in box is nearly empty, kids! Now's the time to show us whatchoo got. 😉 #writingcommunity #poetry #fiction #essays

Thanks, Vonnegut. 💜

While we struggle with rocketing food, fuel and energy bills, the "party of the people" is cashing cheques from Thailand-based tycoons. It’s time to clean up politics by capping political donations.

ICYMI today we're delighted to be featuring Do You Want a Happy Ending? by Claire Massey #shortstory #fiction #readingcommunity. Please click on the link below and enjoy fictivedream.com/2026/05/24/d...

It's the time of year when this happens to my garden steps 🥰

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

#TheWelkinGenrePrize Entries open two weeks today!!! Spread the word. And get scribbling!! www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-press...

Lovely to receive some pre-orders of ‘Mudlarking’. We really appreciate your support ❤️

We-mortgaged the house in 2006 to start Bluemoose Nearly lost the house again in 2013. Authors short listed for 31 literary prizes, 2 books adapted for BBC Two. Another chosen for National Junior Certificate in Ireland. Reaching readers corporates don't even bother with. @thebookseller.com

Angela Rayner was dragged through every front page for weeks... HMRC's verdict: NOT deliberate. NOT even careless. Farage pockets £5 million and chooses not to declare it So where's the wall-to-wall coverage? Tell me this isn't a rigged game.

The UK #glyphosate licence expires on 15 Dec - and a 60-day public consultation is planned for June - at which time the government will decide whether to renew it. Sign & share our #petition to call on the government to ban this dangerous #pesticide 👉 www.gardenorganic.org.uk/glyphosate-campaign.

One down. How many to go? South East Water’s CEO has resigned over supply failures. It’s a start, but other water bosses are still illegally dumping sewage into our seas while taking home eye-watering salaries and millions in dividends. We can’t let the rest of them off the hook.

In case you are interested: Submission open May 25 to June 2. Just sayin. www.matchbooklitmag.com/guidelines

We were told our data would stay under NHS control. But an internal document just revealed the truth: Palantir staff are being granted “unlimited access”. Join us demanding this spy-tech firm gets out of our NHS 👇 goodlaw.social/658abc

Sacha Dench, aka 'the human swan', known for her record-breaking journey tracking migrating swans in a motorised paraglider #WomensArt #Monday

I've signed - will you join me? Glyphosate was designated probably carcinogenic ten years ago yet is still routinely used in the uk, contaminating a range of food crops. wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk/banglyphosate/

It's #buyastrangerabook day's 8th birthday tomorrow. EIGHT YEARS! I've done some maths and I think that thanks to your amazing help, over 12,000 books have been given away since it started! It started here. www.bigissue.com/culture/book... THANKS!

If you check out the #buyastrangerabook hashtag and you live in the UK, you'll see about 10 unclaimed offers. People are offering to buy people books, but nobody is asking. It's not tricky to do. Essentially, people are being lovely. So check out the hashtag, stop being a doof, and just ask!

National Poetry Month: Prompt 28, from Erin Vachon! 💫 On poetic origins & myth making. @erinvachon.bsky.social #poetry #NaPoMo

THE BIG GREEN BOOKS 500 CLUB. We're looking for our 5th school to send £500 of books to! If you're a teacher/in a PTA etc & want to nominate your school, DO IT! Thanks so much to all the members of the Club. Your donations are making a huge difference! www.biggreenbookshop.com/big-green-bo...

This week's walk - a local stretch of the coast path in the warm spring sunshine. What a tonic! 🌊🌞 #SouthWestCoastPath

FlashFlood closes today at 23:59 BST. You still have time to submit up to 3 flashes of up to 300 words each. Pre 2023 prev published considered. Reserved spots for debut writers. Details here: flashfloodjournal.blogspot.com/p/submission...

Delighted to have a spot in @natflashfictionday.bsky.social Flash Flood this year! 🌊🌊🌊 Look for my tiny micro, Wind-up Shoes, around 08:45 BST on Sat 13th June. 😊

The shortlist for the 2026 #BranfordBoaseAward is out! Discover the 'magnificent' debut novels on this year's shortlist. Congratulations to these talented authors & editors 💐 & thank you to @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social & @alcs.co.uk for supporting the award. branfordboaseaward.org.uk/shortlist-20...

Rise and shine! Today's #DawnChorusClub challenge is in... On your next wander outdoors, send a friend a voice note or recording of any birdsong you hear. 🎵 (Bonus points if you share here too).

Kenyan born artist Magdalene Odundo, considered one of the premier ceramicists working today #womensart

Spring in The Malvern Hills.